After Maximilian left Zadie in a hurry he takes his personal airship to marshal de Gouvion Saint-Cyr to discuss the latest intel. He deliberately passes through Heaven's Gate but nobody reacts although he feels that he is being watched.
The marshal does not seem surprised about the info Maximilian is presenting him and soon comes up with a new plan.
"We must apply a strategy of dazzling the enemy" "Dazzling?" "We execute what we planned before but in the mean time we also attack them from 4 sides with our newly formed special forces unit. The goal is to overload them with initiatives and info so that they don't know where to start first."
Maximilian is surprised by this change in tactics, but he likes the idea. But first he wants to know more about the special forces that would be used for this operation and the marshal fixes a meet-and-great with their commander.
During his guided tour Maximilian gets briefed about the new concept of parachutes and how troops use them to jump out of airships.
Max is so impressed with the concept that he wants to try it out.
So a flight is fixed, and Maximilian jumps. But without any training Maximilian panics.
The commandos who accompany him notice he is in danger and jump after him.
What happened next is classified. Let's leave it at the fact that Maximilian almost crashed into a building and...
...that after an intervention he made an acceptable landing.
That same day, a senior commando got a medal from the commander-in-chief. For those who care: the tactics were approved, and only a select group made aware of it.